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Welcome to the Women’s Voices Now Film Archive. Here you will find a curated selection of powerful films by and about women and women’s issues worldwide available for streaming anytime, anywhere, for free.

Through the power of social issues film, we aim to inspire and challenge our viewers to help create lasting social change.

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30%: Women and Politics in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone | 2013 | 11 mins

Synopsis

The use of oil painted animation brings to life the stories of three powerful women in post-conflict Sierra Leone; revealing the violence and corruption women face as they fight for fairer representation in the governance of their country. The story of the ten-year battle to achieve fair representation for women in the governance of Sierra Leone is revealed to us with passion by three extraordinary women from diverse backgrounds. Bernadette, Salamatu, and Barbara share their stories of the ‘roadblocks’ women face within the world of politics in Sierra Leone. The film moves effortlessly between Em Cooper’s exquisite oil-painted animation and live action video – so transforming issues of gender and politics into compelling and thought-provoking viewing.

About Anna Cady

Anna Cady is a contemporary artist based in the UK. She often makes work with people who are not visual artists – a young child, a girl with cerebral palsy, a dancer, a billboard painter in India or a friend with a life threatening illness. The work becomes a part of the conversation between the artist, the collaborator and the audience. Anna works with a variety of media – including short films, pinhole and digital photography, drawing and text. Her short films have screened nationally in the UK (including Tate Modern and the Whitechapel Gallery) and internationally at festivals (2013 selected for Sundance Film Festival).

Director’s Statement

I often work with people who have a need to tell their story, and who find that being creative gives them not only a voice, but also hope. I make my own work through and beside them whilst enabling them to make their own which is both inspiring and satisfying. Now I find myself collaborating with scholars and artists from other disciplines through my current project Elemental Dialogues. Exploring what it means to interpret film-poems (but not to translate!) as I pass our film onto other artists for interpretation. We find that there is no one truth, there are only competing stories.

Watch curated selections of documentary films made by and about women and women’s rights issues from around the world online and for free. The Women’s Voices Now Online Film Archive seeks to amplify the voices of all women through the power of film to realize the aspirations of global women’s rights.